It was wonderful to see Mish's smiling face above the milling crowds of the Johannesburg international airport. Even better to spend a day and a half with him and Colleen and Shingi and Temba at their lovely home on the Kensington hillside.
All four of them have perpetually busy schedules: work, school, extra study activities, sports, scouts, social functions and much more. Nevertheless they made sure there was time for the things I would enjoy most, so kind!
Special-for-Jules included including relaxing in their garden, all rainy-season green and full of birds, and a welcome walk up and down the hilly neighbourhood streets to view the wide expanse of the city spread around old mine dumps in the distance, then a visit to their friends and a look around the older quarter of the inner city.
Our city experience included a remarkable exhibition of photos of Mozambique and a museum with far more fascinating exhibits than we could possibly take in, plus a small street market with irresistable African bead work displayed on the cobbled pavement among many more mundane items.
And so... from Jules
a BIG, BIG THANK YOU
to Mish, Colleen,
Shingi and Temba!